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Friday, November 6, 2015

Origami into art

I have seen this image on pinterest for quite a while and I wanted to see if my students could create work that was just as interesting.

I mean these are really neat, right? Well I put the challenge in front of my students. I asked them to create an origami shape that they would repeat on top of a simple cardboard shape. I'm not sure if it is a project that I will do again, but here are some of the results.

We discovered that you had to paint the cardboard that you are going to attach the pieces to. We basically used hot glue, but a few of them like the butterfly have had trouble keeping those pieces on the cardboard. Honestly i don't know if I will do it again. It was a hard one for the students to get excited about. Thanks for asking.